Israeli History and the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:00 history_edu Silviu Marinescu
This course provides a historical overview of the Israel-Palestine conflict and examines its political, social and cultural reflections, from late Ottoman Palestine to the present day.Alongside the political history, the course will emphasise social and cultural aspects of the conflict. It will bring a variety of voices and perspectives on the conflict, its underlying causes and dynamics; these perspectives include not only the two "official" narratives, the Israeli and the Palestinian one, but also voices "from below" of marginalised groups.

Attention will be given to groups whose position does not fit easily with the official narratives: local Jewish communities in Palestine, Arab Palestinian collaborators with the British and the Zionists, Middle Eastern Jews in Israel, and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Architecture, visual art, film, novellas and poems will be discussed as means to analyse and understand the conflict.

Period
01-07-2013 - 19-07-2013 (3 weeks)

Target group
Undergraduates

Course aim
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Credits
0.0 ECTS credits-

Course fee
GBP 1250: Tuition fees per 3-week programme.-

Course leader
Yair Wallach

Scholarships
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SOAS, University of London Enterprise
Address: Thornhaugh Street London
Postal code: WC1H 0XG
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/summerschool/ug/
E-mail: summerschool@soas.ac.uk
Phone: +44 0207 898 4205